Snow Queen Linkage

During this holiday season, Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen"* has been a common topic on a number of fairytale-related sites, perhaps because Disney is rumored to be planning its release as a full-length animated feature.

Since "The Snow Queen" is one of my favorite literary fairy tales, as well as my favorite of Andersen's work, I thought I'd share a few links.

SurLaLune held a Snow Queen Week for the Winter Solstice, starting on December 20, 2009. There are a couple of earlier posts about "The Snow Queen," available through that link, too.

Once Upon a Blog offered The Snow Queen as part of its Stories for the Season series. (In this series, not Snow Queen related, but very beautiful, is the Torvill and Dean ice-ballet special, Fire and Ice, which I loved.)

The Fairy Tale Cupboard has a lovely article, Queens of snow and ice, on the women of winter found in many stories, both traditional and literary.**

Wendy Donawa, Ph.D., an instructor at The University of Lethbridge, Alberta, and The University of Victoria, British Columbia, uses "The Snow Queen" to provide insight into the educational process at Phanopoeia: In the Shadow of the Snow Queen.**

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Also, on a completely unrelated note, pjthompson has an awesome collection of links. I highly recommend that you check out her post, Weekly weird roundup. I especially enjoyed What were They Thinking?.

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* You can read the full text of "The Snow Queen" on The Literature Network. Btw, my husband and I both grew up with the beautifully illustrated version in Adrienne Ségur's fairy tale collection of the same name. You can see more of Adrienne Ségur's work in Terry Windling's (t_windling) article in The Journal of Mythic Arts, A Tribute to Adrienne Ségur.

** This link via Once Upon a Blog.